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13 unusual facts about Wall Street Crash of 1929


1930 Indianapolis 500

Contrary to popular belief, the rules changes were not made in response to the stock market crash of 1929.

Alice Austen

Alice lived off the interest from the money left by her grandfather but the principal was lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and by age 63, she had no income.

Andreu Martín

The novel, set in Chicago during the 1930s, stars Zack Dallara, a private investigator who had a business that was destroyed by the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Economic stratification

When it became apparent that the valuation of M2 exceeded the supply of M1, a panic ensued to convert M2 to M1, resulting in the rapid apparent devaluation of M2, and the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Emil Mosbacher

Mosbacher was the son of Gertrude (née Schwartz) and Emil Mosbacher, Sr., a wealthy stock trader who divested himself of his holdings just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and who, as a member of the Knickerbocker Yacht Club, help formulate specifications for the Interclub class of racing sloops.

George Joseph Finnigan

Bishop Finigan's ministry also, of necessity, responded to the impact of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Groupe X-Crise

The Groupe X-Crise (or X-Crise) was a French technocratic movement created in 1931 as an aftermath of the 1929 Wall Street stock market crash and the Great Depression.

J. Mayo Williams

However, after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, record sales plummeted, and Williams found new work as a football coach at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

The New York stock market had reached an all-time high less than two weeks earlier, only to go into its biggest decline two weeks later in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which signaled the beginning of the ten-year Great Depression.

Ron Hargrave

Ron Hargrave was raised in the Bronx to Vaudeville performers directly after the big Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Rowan Nathaniel House

After the U.S. Wall Street Crash of 1929, he returned to Cleveland, Mississippi to graduate from Delta State college (now Delta State University).

Walter Breuning

Breuning said that the first president he ever voted for was Woodrow Wilson, and that the most memorable news item he ever heard about in his life was the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Warren Wright, Sr.

The purchase and subsequent Wall Street Crash of 1929, just months later, left the Wrights among the wealthiest people in America during the Great Depression.


Eugene Robert Black

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 happened, he and two cashiers rushed to Nashville, Tennessee to supply currency and credit to banks in the city and surrounding region.

L. Brooks Leavitt

Among the manuscripts owned and collected by Leavitt, who turned to book collecting after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, was an original Shakespeare First Folio, as well as the original manuscript of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, written in Lawrence's own hand.